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Extract Meta Refresh URLs
Extract meta refresh redirect targets from pasted HTML head snippets before migration, redirect QA, or template cleanup.
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Meta refresh extraction workflows
Use this extractor when pasted HTML needs a quick browser-local inventory before QA, migration, cleanup, or documentation.
Audit pasted HTML
Pair this with HTML Formatter, Extract Meta Tags, and Extract HTML Links for broader markup review.
Review head and resource hints
Use Extract Canonical URLs, Extract Preload Links, or Extract Link Relations when pasted markup includes head tags.
Clean copied rows
Send copied output to Remove Duplicate Lines, Sort Lines, or URL Parser.
What this tool does
Extract Meta Refresh URLs finds http-equiv refresh meta tags, extracts delay and URL targets, removes duplicates, shows source lines, and runs locally in your browser.
Common use cases
Extract meta refresh redirect targets and delay values from pasted HTML head snippets, legacy templates, CMS output, or copied source before redirect QA, migration, or cleanup.
Use Extract Meta Refresh URLs when you are working with copied API payloads, logs, encoded values, config snippets, identifiers, or debugging data and need a quick browser-local check before pasting the result into docs, tickets, tests, or another developer tool.
How to use it
- Paste snippets, head markup, component templates, CMS output, or copied source that contains the relevant HTML tags.
- Choose whether duplicate extracted rows should be removed and whether output text should be normalized for comparison.
- Review extracted rows with source lines, then copy the clean list for QA, migration, cleanup, accessibility review, or documentation handoffs.
Example workflow
Copy a small payload or encoded value from an API response, request URL, log line, or config file. Run the focused check here, confirm the output is readable, then continue with related developer data tools such as validation, formatting, decoding, timestamp conversion, or CSV/JSON conversion.
Privacy note
Meta refresh URL extraction runs locally in your browser. Your pasted HTML is not uploaded, rendered, fetched, crawled, loaded, executed, or stored.
FAQ
Does Extract Meta Refresh URLs follow redirects?
No. It reads pasted HTML text only and extracts URL targets from meta refresh tags. It does not fetch pages, crawl redirects, render, execute, upload, store, or log snippets.
What does the output include?
When a refresh tag has a delay and URL value, the output shows the delay in seconds followed by the extracted redirect target.
When is this useful?
Use it while migrating legacy pages, reviewing pasted templates, documenting redirects, or finding hidden refresh targets before cleanup.
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Browse the Developer Tools hub or continue with the Developer Data Toolkit when this task is part of a larger workflow.